Definitely not the externally funded as it requires lots of pilot data.

The semantic content of that sentence appears close to zero. Would you like to rephrase it?

University research is either funded from the university itself or from external funds.In the latter, the funding organisations require lots of pilot data. So it is almost impossible to receive such funding for blue sky research.Blue sky research is very novel with limited supporting evidence.

The whole point of research is to add a hint of academic respectability to a vocational qualificationgive third-rate lecturers something harmless to superviseimprove a producttest a plausible hypothesis

If either of the last two could lead to a patent, industry will fund it. Otherwise you need to con the taxpayer or a charity into giving you money, and universities are very good at that.

The whole point of research is to add a hint of academic respectability to a vocational qualificationgive third-rate lecturers something harmless to superviseimprove a producttest a plausible hypothesis

If either of the last two could lead to a patent, industry will fund it. Otherwise you need to con the taxpayer or a charity into giving you money, and universities are very good at that.

Lol well said, so 2/4 of research is for professional development of useless lecturers and stuckup phd wannabes, brilliant!

I can't believe the amount spent on ridiculous things given their extreme reluctance to fund very novel projects.

They developed a diet app for fatty liver. I cannot imagine more wasteful way to spend resources.

There are almost a billion diet/health/blah apps and I am pretty sure not even 0.0001% of patients have installed them and even lower percentage uses them frequently and even even lower percentage has actually benefited from them and even in this case, the benefit must be 0.00001% compared to other apps or not using any apps and just following a diet.

And the same kind of people will tell you, oh your project is too advanced, we cannot spend money to fund it.